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Title: How to donate to Bitcoin Core Devs? And the lads that work on Electrum as well..
Post by: WriteCode on November 01, 2022, 03:05:39 AM
I would like to donate some coins to the Bitcoin Core Devs.
And to the Electrum crowd as well cuz it's my favorite wallet.
But I can't find any "Donate Here" links or addresses.

soooo.... how do I donate?

ps.
I'm a student, so I'm not planning to donate much.
But I'd like to send some money.


Title: Re: How to donate to Bitcoin Core Devs? And the lads that work on Electrum as well..
Post by: Apocollapse on November 01, 2022, 03:35:17 AM
They're not open for any donation, but they're suggest to donate via the electrum server you're connected to. [1]

If you want to donate to Bitcoin developer, they have an address on below of the page 3E8ociqZa9mZUSwGdSmAEMAoAxBK3FNDcd [2]

For note: Bitcoin.com isn't an official Bitcoin site, the official is Bitcoin.org


[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Electrum/comments/nppegf/donating_to_electrum/
[2] https://bitcoin.org/en/


Title: Re: How to donate to Bitcoin Core Devs? And the lads that work on Electrum as well..
Post by: mk4 on November 01, 2022, 05:09:19 AM
Bitcoin developers: https://bitcoindevlist.com/

As for Electrum, I don't think they have an "official" donation address/page.


For note: Bitcoin.com isn't an official Bitcoin site, the official is Bitcoin.org
Just a heads up: there's no such thing as an "official" Bitcoin website. Bitcoin.org is just the most linked and most reputable among the Bitcoin websites.


Title: Re: How to donate to Bitcoin Core Devs? And the lads that work on Electrum as well..
Post by: WriteCode on November 01, 2022, 11:01:02 AM
Thanks for the replay guys.

They're not open for any donation, but they're suggest to donate via the electrum server you're connected to. [1]

How do I do that??

If you want to donate to Bitcoin developer, they have an address on below of the page 3E8ociqZa9mZUSwGdSmAEMAoAxBK3FNDcd [2]

ah... I actually found that donation address but I taught it's for hosting Bitcoin.org website itself.
Didn't think it goes for the development of the Bitcoin Core.
If it does I'll use that one.

ps.
found the Electrum @ThomasV address in your signature. :)
hardcoded in the software, so I've everything I need. THX



Bitcoin developers: https://bitcoindevlist.com/

Awesome. :)


Just a heads up: there's no such thing as an "official" Bitcoin website. Bitcoin.org is just the most linked and most reputable among the Bitcoin websites.

I know... It's great, decentralization and all, isn't it??


Title: Re: How to donate to Bitcoin Core Devs? And the lads that work on Electrum as well..
Post by: arwin100 on November 01, 2022, 11:05:26 AM
I would like to donate some coins to the Bitcoin Core Devs.
And to the Electrum crowd as well cuz it's my favorite wallet.
But I can't find any "Donate Here" links or addresses.

soooo.... how do I donate?

ps.
I'm a student, so I'm not planning to donate much.
But I'd like to send some money.

Maybe try to contact them here https://bitcoincore.org/en/contact/ and maybe they accept some donations from people who want to give a token of appreciation to them.

Any other than that you must be careful since there are so many impersonators who want to deceive and exploit the money of people who want to show some kindness to the devs  so always check then verify the information's you see.


Title: Re: How to donate to Bitcoin Core Devs? And the lads that work on Electrum as well..
Post by: nc50lc on November 01, 2022, 11:23:30 AM
ah... I actually found that donation address but I taught it's for hosting Bitcoin.org website itself.
Didn't think it goes for the development of the Bitcoin Core
If it does I'll use that one.

ps.
found the Electrum @ThomasV address in your signature. :)
hardcoded in the software, so I've everything I need. THX
Your hunch is correct, it's for bitcoin.org, not for the development of the reference client.

For the hardcoded Electrum address, it's not meant to be a donation address.
It's for message signing purposes in case there's a new version to be announced to Electrum clients (for clients who turned it on).
Because the "version" (electrum.org/version) (https://electrum.org/version) that Electrum provides have to be signed with either of those addresses for verification purposes.

If you need to contact ThomasV (ecdsa) to get a donation address, here's his bitcointalk profile: ThomasV (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3137) / GitHub profile: github.com/ecdsa (https://github.com/ecdsa)

These links might be useful:
  • Electrum developers: https://github.com/orgs/spesmilo/people (https://github.com/orgs/spesmilo/people)
  • Bitcoin (reference client) developers: https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people (https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people)